The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence.

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us both.

I'm a Christian by choice.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.